Another potential obstacle facing plastic processors is the packaging suppliers of food companies.

Approximately 1,400 workers at Kellogg's grain factory in the United States are on strike. This is the first time Kellogg's employees have stopped work since 1972. The current strike occurred after a summer strike in Nabisco (the first strike since 1969) and Frito-lie down.

Obviously, there are many different reasons behind each strike—Kellogg employees pointed out the need to change the two-level compensation and benefit plan that affects some employees—but there is one thing in common, Patricia Campos, the executive director of the workers. The Medina ILR Cornell Institute told the Associated Press.

The continuing labor shortage in the United States is giving union members greater influence than they have over the years to address what they believe is a problem of declining status.

"Workers generally demand that companies invest more in labor, not just use profits for shareholders," she said.

Kellogg, headquartered in Battle Creek, Michigan, plans to restart production lines with management and non-union employees. For suppliers of film and hard plastics used by cereal companies, this may ensure that demand for their products will not be interrupted, but don’t be surprised if other customers face similar strikes in the future.

Speaking of grains, the California Milk Advisory Board issued a new public service message that focuses on allowing consumers to recycle their high-density polyethylene milk cans.

The Recycling Cans program is working to overcome the gap between the 70% of California consumers who think recycling is important and 47% who think milk cans are difficult to recycle. In addition, 32% of consumers surveyed stated that they did not believe that kettles would be recycled.

CMAB CEO John Talbot said: “California consumers are committed to doing their part for recycling, but many people don’t understand that HDPE used in plastic milk jugs is the most popular in the U.S. recycling program. One of the most widely accepted plastics." "We want to encourage consumers who buy milk in cans to ensure that the cans enter the recycling bin to help prevent plastic from entering the landfill."

The program focuses on the three simple steps of recycling plastic milk cans: pour out the milk, put the lid back on the can, and put it in the recycling bin. It also provides videos showing how to recycle the cans and what happens to the recycled HDPE.

If you can't eat enough dairy products, Chicago is about to become the home of the newest ice cream museum, with a bunch of "sprinkles"-actually colored resin pellets.

The museum started in New York and was originally a temporary exhibition showing the hands-on art of complimenting ice cream. Since then, it has expanded to Austin, Texas and Singapore.

The Chicago Museum will be located in a shopping and tourist destination on Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago and will open in 2022.

"It is very exciting to have the opportunity to open one of the most ambitious ice cream museums in the Tribune Building on the Magnificent Mile," Maryellis Bunn, the museum's co-founder and creative director, said in our sister newspaper Crain's Chicago Business. "The region's past 100 years of architecture, art, and revolutionary commercial history make this the perfect place for the next iteration of the Ice Cream Museum."

If you missed it, check out Frank Esposito's 2016 story to learn how Texas-based Birch Plastics provided the museum with particle "sprays" to rescue it when it first opened.

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